Playing with a “Balder” of string obviously lost its charm for Dewi and his cousin. Or ,more likely, our hunka burning Balder turned HIS charm up a titch and had them eating out of (not into) his hand.

Balder strategically waited until both dragon’s took cat naps. Then using techniques he learned from the other contestants in the beauty competition, clawed his way out. Next changed into one of the spare outfits Sif had made for him and leisurely strode forward.

Those Celtic guys are almost as bad as Odin. *grins* Oh, and excellent use of picture composition to hide “naughty bits”… And can I just say that I love the fact that Sif is still in the thick of things fighting–while the guys are just standing there staring?? Promote that girl to head Valkyrie, and smack the boys… GO SIF!

@SSgt Lance Heinzelman – Thanks for the comments. It’s good to hear some military folks are reading the comic (my wife and I both served in the Air Force).

BTW, there were two black boxes. ^_^ If anyone ever catches a glimpse of Seth’s sketchbook (at one of our rare convention appearances), you’d easily see he likes to draw sexy women, so I told him to just cut loose this time (and let me worry about covering things up).

@j c roullard – It’s possible. If Balder saved himself, it would technically still fit with my “divine intervention” statement. Or maybe there was more to it. Hmmm.

@Rayna – Hooray for cat naps! And once more for the gamers out there… divine intervention.

@Jubal – That is correct. She’s normally referred to as “The Morrigan”, and I tried keeping to that during the Pantheon Games story arc… but it made the dialogue feel weird (and I found myself trying to change the dialogue to make it sound better). When I get the new character pages finished and uploaded, you’ll see her officially listed there as “The Morrigan”.

Oh, I am literally weeping from laughter at this point. I am loving this whole storyline and I cannot WAIT to see what the ladies do to Balder… I am sure it will have something to do with the many thrustings and anglings of things… And stacking things on top of other things…